today the world is mourning the death of the great nelson mandela. the anti-apartheid leader spent 27 years in prison. our michelle caruso-cabrera joins us here at post nine with more on the life of mandela and what a life it was. >> so many people are focusing on history mendous legacy. natural for us to folks on his economic legacy. he admits when he emerged from prison he was a leninist, a marxist. this was part of a speech in 2003. "it is not a question any longer about whether the world embrace as free market economy. the globalized world in which we live in has made it imperative we open our markets both internally and to the outside world. the free market is not merely an american export, it is the acknowledged route for economies all over the world." >> we had robert johnson on earlier today, did some fund-raising for the amc, i think he did a beautiful job of wrapping up the import of nelson mandela's effect on the south african economy as well. >> from an economic standpoint, he understood that you simply couldn't confiscate all the white a